Esters of dialkylaminoformic acid.



-rrsn s rains Parana or. Triton GEORG MERLINGDOI ELBEEEELD, AND HUGO KHLER, O1? LEVERKUSEN, NEAR CO LOG-NE, GERMANY, ASSIGNOZRS TO FABBENFABRIKEN WORM. EELIEDE. BAYER & 00., OF ELBERFELD, GERMANY, A CORPORATION OF GERMANY. 9

' ESTERS F DIALKYLAMINOFOEMIC ACID.

Lqmlggfifig Specification of Letters latcnt. iPafimgntgd (Dent, "Z 1%}13. Ito Drawing. Application filed Qotober 16, 1912. Serial No. 726,865. To all/whom it may concern distillation *vacao. The new product forms Be it known that we, Gnono Mnnmlao and colorless needles melting at 4 394:? 6.. and. HUco Ker-Inna, doctors of philosophy, chemboiling without decomposition at 184 13? ists, citizens of the German Empire, resid- C. (16 mm.). L This ester is obtained in ing, respectively, at Elberfeld and Levernearly theoretical yield Other trialkylkusen, near Cologne, Germany, have inamins or other halogen-formic;ac1desters vented new and useful Improvements in can also he used. Esters of 'Dialkylaminoformic Acid, Of We claim: I which the following is a specification. 1. As new products aryl esters of diallryl We have foundthat the hitherto unknown amin0formic acid having the formula ammonium halogenids obtainable from trialkylamins and halogen formic acid esters can-he decomposed by'heating. These amv monium halog'enids are obtained a g. using 111 h means alkyl and R an 'y trimethyl amin according to the following g p Whlch dQCOmPQSQd 3, p q equati0n; tion w th caustic alkali into dialkyl amin,

' CI-4COO.R+N.(CHs)a==(CH .N-CO O.R carbonic acid and a phenol. i

' 2. As new products aryl esters of diand the decomposition of these halogenids 23 ,1 ammo formm acld having the I01- 7 proceeds according to the equation: CH8\ I 3 a\ Km-coon CH3 N-CO.O.R=CI-laN-C0.OlR+CH3Cl i CH3 C1 in which R means aryl which are decom:

v posed by saponlficatlon with caustic alkali (R meaning aryl) the technically valuable int-Q di thyl 51min, c rbonic cid and a 7 esters of dialkylamino formic acid being 010- h L taincd whichnre decomposed by treatment 3 A new d t th di lk l i with a caustic alkali into a dialkylannn, f i id 1 1 esters h i th 6 carbonic acid and a phenol. m

in order to-illustratc the new process more n fully 1the following; example is given, the parts cine: by Weight: 10 arts of chlorov I u I formicacid-phenyhester CLCOQC H m 5 8 B 9? a ra are gradually added to 130 parts of benzene p z i i 1 a 1 solution which has to be cooled and stirred i (Lalkyi Carbon choxld a of trimethylalnin containing 12.5 per cent. P i of trimethvlarni'n. The chlorid of the ami new Product the dlmethylammw monium cdmpoundz formic acid phenyl ester having the formula Guam-00.0mm

it which is decomposed saponification with separates as a colorless crystalline product. dlmethyl carbon )n roiling the mixture under a reflux con w Y' denser the crystals graduallv dissolve With 5 d g whleieot heleunto formation of dimethylamindformic-acid- SP O- L g m 16 presence 0 two i phenylestcr and inethyl-c'hlorid; The opera- Emil )mb tion is finished when the evolution of methyl (ILORG M chlorid ceases. "The benzene is distilled off HUGO KOHLER- nl from the solution either at ordinary or re- Vitnesses; duced pressure and the remaining dimethyl- ALBERT Norris, annno-formic-acid-phenylester is purified by HERMANN BnRTnAMs. 

